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occult
2025 · R · 1h 42m
Something in the dark changed them. Something in the dark won't let them go.
Together follows a couple on the rocks who relocate to a remote rural property in search of a reset — and stumble upon something underground that has its own ideas about keeping people close. Michael Shanks's body horror dark comedy is a visceral, darkly funny examination of codependence and dissolution, using the horror of two bodies becoming one to say something uncomfortably true about what it means to lose yourself in a relationship. Dave Franco and Alison Brie commit entirely to something genuinely strange.
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Tim Brassington and Millie Wilson have been together for nearly a decade and are moving from the city to the countryside for Millie's new school-teaching job. Tim is a musician whose career has stalled; he has no driver's license and still talks like he's on the verge of a big break, which quietly frustrates Millie. At their going-away party, Millie impulsively proposes to Tim in front of everyone. He says yes, but his stunned, hesitant reaction makes the moment awkward and reveals his ambivalence. Millie warns him that if they don't split up now, it will only get harder later — foreshadowing everything that follows.
They move into a small house near the woods. Millie starts her job at the local school, where she meets friendly coworker Jamie, who also happens to be their next-door neighbor. Tim is instantly insecure and wary of Jamie's easy confidence. On a hike through the nearby forest, they stumble upon a hidden underground chamber — a sinkhole with ritual objects, a bell, pew-like benches, and a strange pool. They fall into the space and, while climbing out, their thighs get stuck together, as if their skin is magnetized. They painfully peel themselves apart and escape, shaken but assuming it's a fluke.
Back home, the changes begin. One day, as Millie drives to work, Tim's body starts moving involuntarily — slammed and dragged through the house as if an invisible tether is trying to pull him after her. The farther she goes, the more violently he's thrown. Later, when Tim kisses Millie, their lips literally fuse together. They tear themselves apart, mouths raw and wounded. That night, Tim wakes choking on Millie's hair — strands lodged deep in his throat. He moves to a separate room, hoping distance will help.
It doesn't. One night a force drags them from their rooms toward each other and their arms begin to fuse at the flesh, binding them like conjoined twins. They scream and tear themselves apart, skin leaving wounds. Tim, convinced he's losing his mind, takes diazepam — and then more — hoping unconsciousness will break the connection. Meanwhile, Millie grows suspicious of Jamie's talk about "becoming whole" and the ritual chamber they discovered.
Millie goes to confront Jamie. She finds a wedding video playing: two men going through a ritual, fusing together. Jamie appears and admits he is the fused product of those two men. He explains he belongs to a cult whose purpose is to physically merge couples into one being. The underground chamber inducted Tim and Millie when they fell into it. He says he's been nudging them toward fusion, believing it will make them whole. When Millie resists, Jamie slashes her wrist. She strikes him hard enough that he splits back into two separate men. She runs.
Tim, surfacing from the diazepam, is convinced there's no way out except death. He prepares to slit his own throat to prevent forced fusion. The supernatural force begins pulling them toward each other again. As it drags them together, Tim finally drops his jokes and ambivalence — he mimics Millie's impulsive proposal but this time sincerely, telling her how much she means to him. Millie, bleeding and exhausted, says she accepts whatever happens, even dying in his arms. Tim refuses to let her die.
In a frantic act of devotion, Tim presses his arm against Millie's bleeding wrist, deliberately fusing them to stop the bleeding — turning the involuntary curse into a choice. Millie wakes to find what he's done. They accept that this process is going to happen one way or another, and decide to surrender to it on their own terms.
In the final sequence, they strip naked and dance together in their living room to "Say You'll Be There" by the Spice Girls, laughing and crying as they hold each other. As they kiss, their bodies begin to completely merge — skin and flesh pulling and stretching until Tim and Millie are no longer two separate people but one fused being. The film ends with that merged entity: the horror of losing individuality and the romantic, messed-up idea of being together forever, made literal.
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